Anatomic Therapy

16. VOMITING

We feel like vomiting (throwing up) rarely. We do not vomit every day. Please think carefully why we vomit. Vomiting comes only when we eat some bad food or when we eat too much food. Vomiting comes also if we eat when we are not hungry or when we are not feeling well.

S o , w h a t c a u s e s vomiting? If a bad food is heated up in a hotel and given to us, we may eat it, unaware of its quality. But, our body has got a sense. It will digest the food only if it is good. Our stomach will not digest bad food. Our stomach will check to see if the food that we ate is good or bad. If it is good food, then only the stomach will make the digestive glands to secrete and digest the food and send it to the small intestine. If the food is not good, then the stomach will stop the digestive glands from secreting and it will order the glands meant for vomiting to secrete.

We might have eaten the food without chewing it fully with our teeth and making it as a paste. In order to vomit such a food, our body will cut the food and make it into smaller pieces. It will also increase the water in our stomach. We might have drunk one glass of water after dinner. But you will observe that the vomit contains about five glasses of water.

Where did the remaining four glasses of water come from? Our body will gather water from all the remaining parts and give it to the stomach. Moreover, when the vomit comes fast from the stomach through the food path (alimentary canal) and through the mouth, in order to protect the food path and the mouth, our body will make some glands to secrete some lubricating matter.

Thus, with the good intention that, if the stomach digests bad food, unwanted food or excess food, the wastages should not remain in our intestine and blood, the doctor in our body makes the glands for vomiting to function and, without our knowledge, says “Ready, 1, 2, 3…” and all our body parts work together and the waste matter inside our stomach is sent out through the mouth in the name of a treatment called vomiting. The bad food that we ate senselessly is being thrown out by our stomach using its sense. The name of this treatment is vomiting. Therefore, vomiting is not a disease. It is the treatment that is given by our body to itself.

But, many people smell a lemon when they get a vomiting sensation. It is not the right thing to do. If we do it, the smell in the lemon goes inside our body through our nose and stops the vomiting. When the waste matter is ready in the stomach for being sent out, if we do something to digest it, is it not a treachery that we do to our body? Some people go to a medical store immediately when they get vomiting sensation and ask, “Please give me a medicine or tablet to stop vomiting.” Some people use some household remedy to stop the vomiting. Please do not do any such thing to stop vomiting.

After vomiting, will anybody eat the vomited matter? It is disgusting even to think about it. If someone takes a medicine or tablet and stops the vomiting, it means that they eat their own vomit. Once the stomach has decided that a matter is garbage and has decided to throw it out, that matter has to come out of our body. What will happen if you take a medicine or tablet to digest that waste material? It means that you have forced your stomach to digest that vomit. If this waste material is digested, the intestine will get diseases. Moreover, this waste material will mix in the blood and many other parts of the body will get disease.

Thus, we understand that vomiting is not at all a disease. Vomiting is nothing but a treatment given by our own body. If a doctor says that vomiting is a disease and something is to be done to stop it, then that person is not at all a doctor.

Therefore, the best treatment in the world for vomiting is to just vomit well. When the body is throwing out a waste matter, why should we stop it? So, if you feel like vomiting, please sit in a corner and put a finger inside your mouth so that vomit comes out well.

After vomiting, if you drink ordinary water, you will get vomiting again. Vomiting will come only as long as waste matter is inside your body. Only waste matter comes out when you vomit. Your body will become healthier if waste material comes out. Therefore, please do not take any treatment when you get vomiting. Do the vomiting with the understanding that vomiting itself is a treatment being given by your body.

After vomiting, when all the waste matter from the stomach has come out, if you drink a glass of water mixed with lemon and crystal salt, your stomach will come back to normal condition in about half an hour to one hour. Then you will feel hungry. If you eat after sending out waste matter like this and cleaning your stomach, your body will be healthy.

Therefore, when you are vomiting or when you have the vomiting sensation, you should not drink lemon juice. Only after you completely finish vomiting and when your stomach becomes empty, you should drink lemon juice to clean your stomach.